Billion dollar app idea. Need developers and backers.
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LOL Jets. And our wonderful government is going to set the requirements, coordinate, and establish infrastructure to support all this! Awesome. I feel better already!!
The solution is simple: Raise cost and standard required to achieve the privilege of driving and equipment used on roadways. Driver's license costs $1k / year, required comprehensive written and practical examination on five year rotation, required vehicle performance testing on annual basis
Get the lazy life types off the road because they cannot afford / are not sufficiently competent to drive
Get the lazy life types off the road because they cannot afford / are not sufficiently competent to drive
Would we need to be citizens with an ID? That's racist!
And you think there aren't undocumented and/or uninsured motorists now?
Nice try guys. This is what cars will be in the future. This is from a documentary I saw about it.
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I caught a glimpse of this jackass driving on 408 next to me texting while I tipped my head back to finish my beer on my way home the other day.
no, but you'll never be able to stop them and it would only make the problem worse.
Oh yes you can stop them. At best, you can definitely minimize it. The laws are in place, they're just not enforced.
Is that when your dog distracted you and you tipped the Bud Light truck over?
It is a privilege to drive, and should be treated as such. It should definitely be harder to get a license to drive than it is now.
Funny to see the same people arguing against government controlling the roadways want government to control who drives. Ironic, in fact.
Because it's two completely different things. Driving is not a right, it's a priviledge. If you meet the requirements to earn such priviledge then good, but if you don't then you shouldn't. That can't be any simpler to explain. The second part of it is, if you earn the priviledge to drive, and you're qualified to drive, why do you need extra regulation and/or outside control as to where and how you're allowed to drive. You already know the rules and if you don't abide by them, your priviledge to drive should be taken away from you. This cannot be any simpler to understand.
If your argument for automated-driving is overpopulation, then the solution is to invest on more and better mass transit alternatives. Also super easy to understand.
Why do you feel that the solution to these problems is to take away people's priviledges?
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So laws don't work because they're not being enforced? So, if you enforce such laws, they would work?
What a fukcing concept.
I'm not saying any privileges need to be taken away at all. Autonomous vehicles aren't taking away anyone's privileges, except maybe the "privilege" to drive like an idiot (either drunk, distracted, drowsy, or aggressively), and it's scary that you feel that way. Cars are first and foremost personal transportation. You decide when and where you want to go and how you get there in your car. Autonomous vehicles change none of that. If anything, they'll make the experience more pleasurable by removing the driver's frustration with other drivers' behavior by coordinating movements and managing capacity. You can sit back and play on the internet, make calls, and let the car do the driving - and still get to where you want to go faster and more efficiently than you do now.
I mean, unless you love to be mad at the world at how they drive, I can't see how it would make driving worse. With a fully coordinated autonomous vehicle network you'd experience:
Waiting at stop lights? minimized to eliminated - most movements will be coordinated to "fill the gaps" at intersections
Stop and go bumper to bumper on the freeway? minimized - traffic coordinated to maximize capacity and ride together
People cutting you off or turning from the wrong lane? eliminated
Accidents? virtually none
DUI? virtually eliminated - let the car take your drunk ass home
Tourists/drivers not knowing where they are going? eliminated - all trips will have to program a route and/or final destination before starting
Finding a parking spot? let the network do that
And the possibilities are much more rife for innovation and personal choice. And no, the governments won't develop these - private enterprise will as the demand for it increases.
As for mass transit, what would be better than a network of coordinated personal vehicles allowing every user the ability to get where they want to go when they want to get there? No waiting at stations. No having to smell the BO of the unwashed. Automated transit vehicles will be part of the network too. for those who can't afford a car or who want to carpool.
So instead of having the government promote an environment where private industry can enhance the driving ability of everyone, you'd rather the government punish bad drivers more severely and make it more expensive for those who can drive? Is that really what you want? I'd rather have a government that provides opportunity than one who merely oppresses the lower classes.
I don't think some of you realize how many people are driving who do not have a valid driver's license. I think you believe that that car won't start without it.
Making it harder to get a license isn't the answer.
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Making it harder to get a license isn't the answer.
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That's ridiculous, your suggestion is to remove the human experience out of the equation. It is human to make mistakes, it is human to get mad. Why do you feel there is a need to remove basic, inherent human emotions in order to create a more "efficient" and "enjoyable" transportation experience? DUI? Tourists? Finding parking? THAT'S ALL PART OF LIFE!!!!! Life is not supposed to be perfect. It isn't. If you deny humans the ability to deal with adversity then how will they understand achievement? This goes beyond a simple automated commuting system as you envision. It is way fukcing deeper than that. I'm very sad for you if you can't understand that concept and completely irritated about the notion that you feel that, just because you find all those things an annoyance (DUI, traffic, parking, lights, etc), I must be stripped of the opportunity to experience those things myself. This is the stuff shitty science fiction movies are made off.
For the record, I love driving my car. Love it. I don't care about sitting in traffic because I'm in my car and I love driving my car. I drive my car for no reason sometimes, just to have something to do. I don't want you to feel the same way as I do, but I sure as hell don't want to force you to either.
Seriously, I'm seeing seashells and Equilibrium in my head every time I read stupid automated driving bullshit.
I wonder how much a license to sit in a car like a fukcing idiot and do nothing is going to cost. What will be the requirements for that?
Also, why will car companies develop different vehicles at different price points for different markets if none of that is going to matter since we're all going to be automata fukcing douche fukcs sitting in cars that we can't even fukcing drive? Are we all going to drive a fukcing Prius now?
I'm glad I won't have any children to witness the stupidity you fukcing morons are turning this god damn fukcing world into.
Also, why will car companies develop different vehicles at different price points for different markets if none of that is going to matter since we're all going to be automata fukcing douche fukcs sitting in cars that we can't even fukcing drive? Are we all going to drive a fukcing Prius now?
I'm glad I won't have any children to witness the stupidity you fukcing morons are turning this god damn fukcing world into.
At least I'm something. You're just the fukcing shell of what's supposed to be a person who believes in automation as a good thing.
I feel sorry for your lineage.
AND A TREKKIE??????????? UGH...
LOL!!!!! Nothing but love, buddy. You crazy though.
This is America. We are going to centralize cities into pods that are live work areas so that we can all walk or bike to work. If you need to work in another pod for a meeting or a different job, there will be cross pod commuter trains. They of course won't be called pods but rather burroughs or parishes or towns. If you need to travel, your car will be parked in massive super structures on the outskirts of the metropolis allowing you to take mass transit out of the pod district and into the unincorporated districts where you can drive on highways and through smaller towns. When you get to a new town, you will be issued a temporary spot in that city's parking super structure so that you can walk around their city as well.
It will be great and we will all be physically active and walking around everywhere.
It will be great and we will all be physically active and walking around everywhere.
You have like a million UCFEE utopia dollars now. What do you plan on doing with your new found fortune?
A million? That isn't even enough for the search committee to form the panel that will conduct the study to come up with the research plan.
After all government is crazy efficient in utopia land making sure everyone is happy all of the time
Well that is because that post was sponsored by Jake from state Farm.
No they aren't. I suspect he's only magnanimous with everyone else's money, especially rich people dollars...after all, you didn't make it on your own.
